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AOCIA
Nov 29, 2021

by sebmojo

skewetoo posted:

good thing the national guard is immune to Covid

im imagining a bus full of unvaxxed, unmasked kids with a bus driver in a full MOPP suit and lolling

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Crusader
Apr 11, 2002


how many cases are with havana syndrome

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Atrocious Joe posted:

January 2022 and they're still talking about "natural immunity" and how kids don't get COVID




so are we just not counting all the kids in the hospital with covid?

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
lmfao that the latest copium is literally the 10 second rule, lmbo

one-time fee
Sep 29, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

gradenko_2000 posted:

people who didn't adjust the nose-piece were still getting better filtration than a surgical. you'd basically have to not be wearing it at all for it to be worse.

on a related note, since it's very difficult to get head-strap N95s here, only ear-looped KN95s, I've taken to using ear-savers to turn the loops into all-the-way-around head straps. That improves the fit (as far as I can tell) immensely

Another thing that works is putting the earloops around over-ear headphones instead of your ears.

Wamsutta
Sep 9, 2001

https://twitter.com/Norwalk_CT/status/1481292384675655680?s=20

lmao. residents of my city can, in two minutes from this post, make an appointment to pick up rapid tests on Sunday. IF experiencing symptoms today, Wednesday.

excellent infrastructure we got ourselves here

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

so are we just not counting all the kids in the hospital with covid?

I was in the ER last week and a 3 year old was brought into the room besides me because she had covid. She had an extreme fever and was having seizures.

Teenage Riot
May 25, 2010

Gio posted:

like, the people that say “why are schools closed but bars and restaurants open???” are typically ghouls, but they have a point—they just come to the wrong conclusion. the conclusion they reach is “we should have schools open if bars are open,” when they should be asking, “why the gently caress do we choose to make schools unsafe for the sake of restaurants, bars, stadiums etc.??”

I saw a lot of people say this specifically citing “McDonalds and Walmart” staying open early on. They were obviously just using it as another way to poo poo on poor people, but like, if they’re calling for restaurants and grocery stores to be closed and food to be mass delivered to people’s houses instead then I’m here to listen

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


quote:

Washington Correspondent, The Australian.
The Australian blue checks have fully embraced COVID. Infecting other people is good now.

Dammerung
Oct 17, 2008

"Dang, that's hot."


AOCIA posted:

im imagining a bus full of unvaxxed, unmasked kids with a bus driver in a full MOPP suit and lolling

I'm imagining parents demanding their new bus drivers take off their masks because they want to see their smiles.

Nocturtle
Mar 17, 2007

Testvan posted:



this guy's only job is to prevent the spread of disease in the USA
seems kinda bad at it
That's definitely in his title but it's not his job, he's there to be the smiling credentialed spokesperson of capital encouraging liberals to get back to work and risk serious illness. This "everyone will get Omicron" is an attempt to normalize getting infected.

He's very good at this role too, scary effective, probably why he's been around so long. Just today a coworker was telling me how lucky I was to get some extra protection from a "mild" case given everyone's getting Omicron and quoting Fauci unironically. Their normal instincts and caution overridden by effective propaganda. Though they haven't got infected yet so who am I to judge.

pitch a fitness posted:

My 11yo son's test came back positive though thankfully he appears fine so far.

We've been careful throughout the entire pandemic and the only (tiny) slip up I can think of is him sitting unmasked for 6hrs/day 5days/week in a small unventillated classroom with 30 other unvaxxed kids, of which some have covid. :iiam:

Sorry to hear this! Hope they get better soon. It will be forever a mystery.

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Atrocious Joe posted:



The Australian blue checks have fully embraced COVID. Infecting other people is good now.

Figures a Serb would precipitate an international uproar

AOCIA
Nov 29, 2021

by sebmojo

Dammerung posted:

I'm imagining parents demanding their new bus drivers take off their masks because they want to see their smiles.

"he's scaring my kids!"

lol. lmao.

FORUMS USER 1135
Jan 14, 2004

Wrex Ruckus posted:

should we switch to remote learning then? no, send in the troops :d2a:
Whoever had "back to plague mines at gunpoint" on their bingo cards, award yourselves a half-point.

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
Anybody else just waiting for this poo poo to completely fall off a cliff so we don't have to do our dumb jobs like normal?

My chef is adding goofy new poo poo to the menu like it's a regular day. We can't get random ingredients, trucks arrive late because they're running out of drivers, guys are coming to work sick until they literally can't get out of bed in the morning, our testing site might be out of tests, our quarantine dorm is double full, we hired less than a third of the student help we need, pork is illegal in California or something now, and this moron is adding deep dish pizza to my menu?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Mike the TV posted:

I was in the ER last week and a 3 year old was brought into the room besides me because she had covid. She had an extreme fever and was having seizures.

I can’t even make a mild joke about that.

That’s just awful. I hope that you and that kid are both recovering.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/1480869665886900229?s=20

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Demon Of The Fall posted:

what idiot would join the national guard, lol

In hindsight, that would have been smarter than signing on for 25 years as a Regular tbh

e: As we’ve learned ITT, I’m an idiot tho

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

Platystemon posted:

I can’t even make a mild joke about that.

That’s just awful. I hope that you and that kid are both recovering.

Kid left before I did. Single mom had to bring her in with her other infant daughter, and there was not enough staff to give them release paperwork/escort them out, and an ambulance brought them in the first place, so she had to coordinate to get an Uber with a carseat to pick her up, but none were available, so one nurse said "well, good thing you're just a few miles away"

edit: it was around midnight and freezing outside

Polo-Rican
Jul 4, 2004

emptyquote my posts or die
why the gently caress would a virus just stop working after 10 seconds in the air

it's just a bundle of proteins. what would exposure to air do to them. what exactly do they think is happening to the virus when it touches air

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Iron Crowned posted:

This morning I heard the news say that Omicron is the last COVID!

thank god

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Animal-Mother posted:

Anybody else just waiting for this poo poo to completely fall off a cliff so we don't have to do our dumb jobs like normal?

on the one hand not having a job would be calamitous for very obvious reasons

on the other hand it's extremely loving alienating that I'm still doing PUSH BUTAN while the world burns

magiccarpet
Jan 3, 2005




shooter drills, death plague and armed bus drivers sure are bound to foster well balanced humans

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011



Eli also reposted this video because he is so proud of it. It was not what I expected.
https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1427621633443995653?s=20

Dammerung
Oct 17, 2008

"Dang, that's hot."


Can businesses request that the National Guard to fill in for positions that are usually worked by Guardspersons who are now off driving school busses and whatnot?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Kylaer posted:

Really curious what's going on in Britain. And also what happened in Denmark with that sudden drop and then resumed rise. Apparently infection rates can do literally anything.

IIRC there was some fuckery with reporting around that time, but I'm certain Pingui has a more qualified answer, I'm just here to scream into the void and club mink, and I'm all outta mink.

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd
the most braindead loving administration to exist

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1481062484110983175

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

"Attending an enemy's book launch" is a very normal example that a very normal average person would give. Thanks for having the pulse of the nation, Atlantic writer.

one-time fee
Sep 29, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So, has anyone here read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen ?

Dude gets sent to Auschwitz and dispassionately describes how the vast majority of inmates screw each other over.
Writer killed himself later in life.

I think about that book a lot when talking to people right now, we truly are, the Psychotic Ape.

Forseti
May 26, 2001
To the lovenasium!

:lol: at the Kotaku comments section being more realistic about COVID than D&D

... at least so far

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durrneez
Feb 20, 2013

I like fish. I like to eat fish. I like to brush fish with a fish hairbrush. Do you like fish too?

gradenko_2000 posted:

people who didn't adjust the nose-piece were still getting better filtration than a surgical. you'd basically have to not be wearing it at all for it to be worse.

on a related note, since it's very difficult to get head-strap N95s here, only ear-looped KN95s, I've taken to using ear-savers to turn the loops into all-the-way-around head straps. That improves the fit (as far as I can tell) immensely

yeah, i use the ear-savers with my old KN95s that don't have headstraps and the fit is much, much, much better! it feels comparable to the headstrap kind.

Twigand Berries
Sep 7, 2008

Platystemon posted:

I’m thinking about those Chinese kids in their astronaut costumes again.

picture them riding a rocket ship but like straddling it and turning back to wave goodbye to earth which slowly sprouts those covid cloves

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

one-time fee posted:

So, has anyone here read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen ?

Dude gets sent to Auschwitz and dispassionately describes how the vast majority of inmates screw each other over.
Writer killed himself later in life.

I think about that book a lot when talking to people right now, we truly are, the Psychotic Ape.

Oh poo poo. Read this in college and recently nabbed it from my boxes of books at my parents house to bring to my home bookshelf. Maybe it's time to read it again

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Forseti posted:

:lol: at the Kotaku comments section being more realistic about COVID than D&D

... at least so far



D&D isn't normal and this thread actually underestimates the number of people who are taking COVID very seriously. It's still not a lot of people, but it's also not just this thread.

Wrex Ruckus
Aug 24, 2015

Blaziken386 posted:

the most braindead loving administration to exist

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1481062484110983175

no point in putting seat belts in cars, some people might not wear them

no lube so what
Apr 11, 2021
who has got that van dam covid bong resin pic

Bruce Hussein Daddy
Dec 26, 2005

I testify that there is none worthy of worship except God and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God
lol we beat the worst case scenario

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Shear Modulus posted:

i've just decided that the funniest way this storyline continues is that desantis dies of his current infection and then trump gloats how ol roni ronnie refused to get trump's beautiful, perfect vaccine and now he's dead and trump is so sad, he would have loved to have ronnie up here on the debate stage but he's dead, it's very sad, we love the trump vaccine don't we folks
Not that trump is capable of long-term thinking, hes clearly just bragging, but when everyone knows half a dozen people who died of covid during the next presidential election Trump is gonna slam dunk desantis into a dumpster, dead or alive

Gio
Jun 20, 2005


DirtyRobot posted:

I have a 1 yr old toddler that should be starting daycare but we're keeping her home. It worries us immensely that she's at a level of development right now where she needs socialization and to be around other kids.

the biggest hit on my mental health right now is the idea that this won't get better, that long covid and/or various vascular long-term side effects or excess mortality will just continue to be ignored (so as to justify nothing getting better), and nothing will be put in place for her to have a normal childhood. If she wants to go to school, she'll just be expected to catch COVID multiple times—but hey she didn't die directly from COVID while hooked up to a ventilator, so that means it's definitely for sure fine and and there's no potential long-term side effects.

God. Christ. gently caress.

i can only imagine what it’s like to be a parent right now. i dont envy the position youre in at all. lose-lose.

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Dammerung
Oct 17, 2008

"Dang, that's hot."


one-time fee posted:

So, has anyone here read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen ?

Dude gets sent to Auschwitz and dispassionately describes how the vast majority of inmates screw each other over.
Writer killed himself later in life.

I think about that book a lot when talking to people right now, we truly are, the Psychotic Ape.

Darn it, I am on a deployment and it doesn't look like there's an e-book. I definitely am interested in checking it out, though!

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